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Picnics are great! Spread out on a big blanket with an over-abundance of expensive gourmet goodies you would never normally buy because they are too damn...

Everyone knows that to be hip in this day and age you need three things: style, trendy facial hair, and a cool name. Pop Levi has all three in spades...

Going to the hairdresser can be a painful experience at times. Clusters of shrill, inane girls shouting one-way conversation over loud pop music; or the...

Dogstar is an institution of the Elizabeth Street shopping precinct; existing long before the new wave of fashion boutiques shot up around it. Launched...

Whether your favourite dress-up fantasy is the quintessential princess, the burlesque babe, a Popeye sailor girl or a roller derby queen…...

Even though it was cool having the Andy Warhol exhibition come to Brisbane earlier this year, in some ways it was really depressing. Because after checking...

If you haven't heard the name Emma Rea yet, you soon will. This up-and-coming Brisbane designer has just launched Poetry: her first line for Spring/Summer...

Sophomore albums are make or break for any artist - whether you slump or whether you thrive depends on the act’s talent and depth, and some artists...

You have to wonder what would possess Gus Van Sant and John Cameron Mitchell to get involved in an autobiographical documentary with a budget of US...

It’s pretty cool to be green these days, ride bikes, use brown toilet paper, that kind of thing. But finding ways to rehash stuff you’ve got...

If you’re like us, then you’ve probably thought to yourself heaps of times during your life, "Gee, I wish someone would develop a useful...

Well the winter sales are here, and where better to head than the quaint-cottaged streets of our very own little nook of urban cool: Paddington? Specialty...

Like Hemmingway and his daiquiri, collaborative efforts generally involve violent heartache, breathtaking beauty and copious amounts of alcohol. Midnight...

"Just one more bubble tea, then we'll leave"

Enter Quan-Yin Tea House and your afternoon may just mysteriously slip by. Hidden within the metropolis...

The step up from comic zinester to graphic novelist is so treacherous that many fear for their livelihoods. And, let’s face it, who’s going...

To appreciate the awesomeness of the Portable Film Festival you need to thinks about two seemingly unrelated things at once. Firstly, you know how ‘normal’...

Remember Nine Queens, the con-man caper flick from Argentina that lingered in small cinemasback in the early ‘00s? Director Fabian Bielinsky...

Team two Scottish ladies with a plethora of fabric, lace and oversized buttons, and you've got new Brissie label Pop Culture Designs. This endearing duo...

For those of you who haven't heard, fashion's fave graff-artist and all round It-girl Fafi has just joined forces with makeup giant M.A.C to launch...

South Bank will play host to a bevy of Brisbane's hottest up-and-coming student designers this weekend as part of the third installment of the South Bank...